Here's To You, Jackie Robinson
Subtitle: The Legend Of The Prichard Mowhawks
Contributors: Ron Fimrite (Introduction)
Publisher: MacAdam/Cage Publishing
Published: May 27, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9781596921276
Subjects: Sports; Prichard Mohawks (Baseball tea; Baseball - History; Sports & Recreation; Prichard Mohawks (Baseball team); Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Histor; Baseball; Alabama; History
Description: "In March of 1948, Jackie Robinson and the Brooklyn Dodgers came to Mobile, Alabama, for an exhibition game. While the city's black population was thrilled to see the man who broke Major League Baseball's color barrier, Robinson's brief appearance did more for one man than fuel his excitement for the game." "Thirty-year-old Jesse Norwood had no baseball experience, but, through the game, he saw a way to help the scrawny youngsters that would congregate near his stoop gain a sense of pride and dignity in the segregated South of the 1950s." "Here's to You, Jackie Robinson is the emotionally charged story of Norwood's legend and legacy. Joe Formichella tells a hero's story that begins in a sandlot and ends in the Baseball Hall of Fame."--Jacket.